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Understanding Globalization

Contents:

Change and the modern world —

The world after World War II —

Dollar devaluations —

Fighting inflation —

Debt and taxes in the Third World —

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Debt and taxes in the United States —

Stock market and job loss —

Technology, food, and hunger —

Free trade agreements —

Population growth —

Global climate change —

Dictatorship and democracy —

The spread of separatism —

Mafias and the global drug trade.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 329 pages

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